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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

KC @ CIN

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Isaac Collins vs Chase Burns
  2. 2+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Spencer Steer vs Stephen Kolek
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Chase Burns

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.